diff --git a/stow/.config/fish/config.fish b/stow/.config/fish/config.fish
index 06aec12..e18731f 100644
--- a/stow/.config/fish/config.fish
+++ b/stow/.config/fish/config.fish
@@ -32,4 +32,17 @@ if status is-interactive
   set -gx XDG_CACHE_HOME "$HOME/.cache"        # cache
   set -gx XDG_DATA_HOME "$HOME/.local/share"  # data files eg. /usr/share
   set -gx XDG_STATE_HOME "$HOME/.local/state"  # state files eg. /var/lib
+
+  # make apps use XDG folders
+  set -gx PYTHON_HISTORY "$XDG_STATE_HOME"/python_history
+  set -gx PYTHONPYCACHEPREFIX "$XDG_CACHE_HOME"/python
+  set -gx PYTHONUSERBASE "$XDG_DATA_HOME"/python
+  set -gx GOPATH "$XDG_STATE_HOME"/go
+  set -gx GOMODCACHE "$XDG_CACHE_HOME"/go/mod
+  set -gx NPM_CONFIG_USERCONFIG "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME"/npm/npmrc
+
+  function wget --wraps=wget
+    wget --hsts-file="$XDG_STATE_HOME/wget-hsts" $argv
+  end
+
 end
diff --git a/stow/.config/npm/npmrc b/stow/.config/npm/npmrc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b12cc98
--- /dev/null
+++ b/stow/.config/npm/npmrc
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+prefix=${XDG_DATA_HOME}/npm
+cache=${XDG_CACHE_HOME}/npm
+init-module=${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/npm/config/npm-init.js
+logs-dir=${XDG_STATE_HOME}/npm/logs